Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-01
DEATH OF JOSEPH W. wINANs.
A Pioneer Californian and Distinguished
Jurist, Long a Resident of Sacramento.

A Pioneer Californian and Distinguished
Jurist, Long Resident of Sacramento.
Joseph Webb Winans, of the law firm
of Winans g. Belknap, San Francisco, died
in that city yesterday morning, in his sixty
seventh year. His illness was not lengthy,
for it is not long since he visited Sacra-
mento looking well. He will be missed,
having been connected with many branches
of public usefulness, and in all ''acted well
his part" At the time of his death he
was President of the Societies for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals and Children,
of San Francisco, which he was instru-
mental in organizing; Dean Of the Hast
ings' College of the Law, Trustee and
Treasurer of the Law Library. Regent OF
the State University, a Knight Iemplar
and member of the Pacific Club, Art Asso-
citation and Geographical Society. The San
Francisco Post says that his father was
prominent merchant in New York City, IN
which place the son was born. Young
Winans obtained his early education IN a
New York grammar school, and after
course of preparatory training entered Col
umbia College in 1886. He graduated four
years later with honors. He was adj
mitted to the bar three years later, and
practiced law in New York City for the
next six wears. When the gold fever struck
New York the young lawyer had bad at
tack, and gave up promising practice TO
make his way in the new country. With
a number of others he bought and equipped
the bark STAFFORD, and left New York for
the voyage around the Horn February =,
1919. The vessel arrived at San Francisco
August 30th. The voyage was continued
tx tbax vocal ntIllVpl
as a floating residence during the autumn
and winter. In Sacramento he entered
upon the practice of his profession. He
soon formed a partnership with John 6.
Hyer, another New Yorker, and the firm
transacted a large and important business
in connection with the land litigation of
that period. The partnership was dissolved
on Mr.. Winans' removal to San Francisco,
in 1862 There he associated himself with
David P. Belknap, and the partnership has
been broken only by death. Mr.. Winans
has been connected with number of
responsible positions. While in Sacramento
he held the Office of City Attorney for sew
eral years. He was chosen President
of the Sacramento Library Association
in 1858, and President of the State Library
Trustees a few years later. In 1864 he was
elected President of the San Francisco So
ciety of California Pioneers. The follow
ing year he was chosen President of the
Board of Education of San Francisco, and
held the position several years. He always
showed great interest in educational mat
tiers. In 1878 he was appointed one of the
Regents of the University and has been an
active member of the Board to the present
time. In the Constitutional Convention
of 1873, in which he sat as delegate at
large, he was appointed Chairman of the
Committee on Education, and was able to
bring his practical experience to bear in
framing that important division of the new
Constitution. He was one of the founders
of the San Francisco Bar Association, and
was a Trustee of that body until 1879.
Mr.. Winans was man OF decided tenn
permanent and lofty sense of honor. As a
member of the bar he ranked high, and
enjoyed large practice.
He was married in 1854 to Miss Sarah A
Badlam, the second daughter of Alexander
Badlam, Sr., and sister of ex-Assessor Bad
lam, of San Francisco. He was also a
near relative of John H. Carroll, of this
city.